Mercury Retrograde in Cancer: Like Your Tryna Communicate Under Water
Jul 02, 2026
🤔 Did ya know Mercury ☿ is retrograde again?
It's true. Mercury ☿, the planet of communication, is retrograde until July 23rd.
😎 If you're a Mercury ☿ retrograde baby, like me, you'll have a little "r" or "rx" next to your natal Mercury ☿. If that's you, make yourself at home! You live this way. It's nothin' new to you.
To support you with this Mercury ☿ retrograde through Cancer ♋️, I wanna share with you a video I made about the do's and don'ts.
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✨ Cancer ♋️ is the sign of intuition, emotions, advocacy, safety and security.
🧠 Mercury ☿ is more logical, practical and cerebral.
They really don't get each other.
Throw a retrograde into the mix and it's gonna feel like you're tryna communicate under water.
Did you ever play that game as a kid where you'd go under water with another kid and they'd say something and you had to guess what they said?
If you did, then you get this energy.
If not, I bet you can imagine how well that would go.
🫶🏼 Please be patient with yourself and others.
As humans, we don't know how to communicate very well, in general, so when Mercury ☿ goes retrograde, communication becomes a ridiculously frustrating endeavor.
Also, it's gonna make you redo things A LOT...especially with anything related to communication, so expect:
- your passwords not to work
- your internet to die for no reason
- your computer to restart in the middle of an important online meeting
- to say the wrong thing and start a fight
- to do something backwards and have to do it again
- to revisit a conversation where you didn't advocate for yourself
- to forget where you were driving to and end up at the wrong place
- to be confused by what other people are saying to you
- to be emotionally triggered and say something you'll have to make amends for later
🥰 Again, please be loving and kind with yourself and others. It's only 3 weeks, for you non-Mercury ☿ retrograde babies.
😅 Plus it'll give you a heaping helping of compassion for us Mercury ☿ retrograde babies who live like this!
🤪 If you don't understand your astrology chart, aka your soul's blueprint, and you'd like to understand yourself better and know what to expect during important transits like Mercury retrograde, check out my Understanding Your Soul's Blueprint beginner's astrology course.
It's self-paced. It's only $97. It teaches you everything you need to know to understand your planets, signs, houses and aspects.
From my heart to yours,
Jen aka Madame Moon 🌙
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